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  • Oceans Apart  (Kingsbury, Karen) by Karen Kingsbury

    Oceans Apart (Kingsbury, Karen) by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees. A story of hope and redemption from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury. Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean...
  • Second Chances at Mermaids Point by Sarah Bennett

    Second Chances at Mermaids Point by Sarah Bennett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When her dreams of young love were cruelly shattered, Nerissa Morgan found it hard to move on. Now, at forty-three, everyone around her is enjoying life while she’s just going through the motions. With her boss retiring and rumours of a new doctor coming in to take over the practice she manages, change is coming, whether she’s ready for it or not...
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  • Something in the Way: A Love Saga by Jessica Hawkins

    Something in the Way: A Love Saga by Jessica Hawkins

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    "A tale of forbidden love in epic proportion...Brilliant"— New York Times Bestselling Author Corinne MichaelsIt was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents' house. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. He was older, darker, experienced. I had never even been kissed...
  • A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    A Different Kind of December by Lesley Jones

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    December 1st... A time to reflect and remember for Georgia, and also, she's decided, this year will be a time for change. Starting with high emotion on the anniversary of the day that changed her life and ending on a loud, raucous and raunchy Christmas night, we get a little dip into the lives of some of the Carnage Series favourite characters. This is book 5 in a series. Carnage Book One...
  • All That Glitters by Catrin Collier

    All That Glitters by Catrin Collier

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Cornish smuggler Devlin 'Devil' Varcoe braves winter weather and revenue men to fetch the contraband on which Porthinnis depends for survival. Drawn to Jenefer Trevanion, whose father finances the smuggling operation, Devlin is seduced by beautiful wild-child Tamara Gillis. When fire destroys her home, Jenefer is forced to work in the pilchard cellars...
  • Come Rain or Shine by Sarah Bennett

    Come Rain or Shine by Sarah Bennett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There are worse fates than growing up knowing that you will one day inherit a vast and magnificent Cotswolds country estate, but for Rhys Travers it has always felt like a huge responsibility.Juniper Meadows is home to much of his extended family, not to mention the many local businesses that operate on the estate, so there’s no time to sit back and enjoy the view...
  • Hate to Love Him by J. Saman

    Hate to Love Him by J. Saman

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A gorgeous, brooding rock god. An unstoppable chemistry we fight to ignore. Desperate passion I want indelibly inked on my soul...Jobless and financially destitute, I have no choice but to see this tour through. Even with my boss hating my guts.A fact he goes out of his way to prove every chance he gets.Lucky for me, the best part of Jasper Diamond is his daughter...
  • Stand Off by Kelsie Rae

    Stand Off by Kelsie Rae

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I never wanted to see Nathan again. Ever.One highly educational night with him in bed was all it took to hand over my v-card.Apparently, that was all it took to get him to move across the country without a backwards glance, too...
  • Summer at the Cornish Farmhouse by Linn B. Halton, Emma Powell

    Summer at the Cornish Farmhouse by Linn B. Halton, Emma Powell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Christmas at The Highland Flower Shop writing as Lucy Coleman, comes a brand new series set in a Cornish Farmhouse.When Jess Newman married the love of her life Ben she was sure they had what it took to stay together forever...
  • Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's eleven years later, and we're still living separate lives. While I know she isn't comfortable with my lifestyle after everything she’s been through, I can't be without her anymore. 
I need her.

 She's my wife. 
She's my heartbeat.
 She's my every breath.
 She's my everything. 

I want to know every detail of her life. I want to be part of it all...
  • Irresistible Revenge by Amanda Bentley

    Irresistible Revenge by Amanda Bentley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You’re going to think I’m a shitty person, and I can’t say I’d even blame you. But before you make a snap judgment, let me help you understand.You see, I slept with my coworker.Now, I know what you’re thinking. Okay…and?Well, I slept with my coworker, but I still had a boyfriend.“How could you?”“That is WRONG.”“(insert choice expletives here)!”I know.You’re right.It is...
  • You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    You're All I Want for Christmas by Karen Cimms

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Billy crossed the hall into his bedroom where Kate was plugging in the last of the electric candles she’d set in each window.She flicked it on. “I guess that’s that.” His hand covered hers. “Do me a favor and don’t turn this one off. I want to know there’s a light burning in our bedroom window until I come home...
  • Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Dark Edges by Kane Caldwell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m not your good ole boy or boy-next-door type of guy. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest you move on. I curse a lot, work too fucking much, and keep to myself. My edges are hard, rough, and even dark at times. I never thought I would wind up in the business I’m in. I may not always play by the rules, but I go where the money is, keep my nose clean, and my affairs organized...
  • One Day With You by Shari Low

    One Day With You by Shari Low

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    One day, five lives, but whose hearts will be broken by nightfall?It started like any other day in the picturesque village of Weirbridge.Tress Walker waved her perfect husband Max off to work, with no idea that she was about to go into labour with their first child. And completely unaware that when she tried to track Max down, he wouldn’t be where he was supposed to be...
  • Hetty’s Farmhouse Bakery by Cathy Bramley

    Hetty’s Farmhouse Bakery by Cathy Bramley

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Hettys Farmhouse Bakery [Paperback] Bramley,...
  • Catch My Heart by Nora Roberts

    Catch My Heart by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The first time single-father Spence Kimball set eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he was floored by her exotic beauty. But the former ballet dancer turned toy shop owner had a fiery temperament that kept men safely at bay. Sensing a hidden wound, Spence and his little girl joined forces to find a way into her closely guarded heart. For Spence realized he'd do anything to tame Natasha's fears..
  • The Girl in the Painting by Max Monroe

    The Girl in the Painting by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Ansel Bray, an artist known around the world for his tragic hiatus from the canvas. Ansel Bray, a broody, handsome man not known by me, at all. Long dark hair, blue eyes, and dimpled cheeks. I’ve never met her, but her image is imprinted in my mind. An angel muse who inspires me to paint again. There is something about him. Something that spurs a need to be as close to him as possible...
  • If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 48 ratings
    Sisterhood in all its drama, hilarity and tears is at the heart of New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins's thoroughly captivating new novel, featuring the wit and romance that readers have come to expect from the much-loved creator of the Blue Heron series..
  • A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    A Little Like Destiny by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Reserved and responsible Reese Brady refuses to miss her chance with bad boy rock star Mark Ashton. After one steamy night, she's convinced the emotional connection they shared was just a figment of her imagination. After all, he’s a womanizer whose affairs are highly publicized. Reese strives to leave that night behind her after a handsome business mogul asks her to dinner...
  • Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One decision. Two lives ripped apart. For Holden Warner and Emylie Sanchez, the road back to each other has been long and jagged. Each of them hiding from the truth, but unwilling to move on from the love they share. When life no longer allows them to run from their past, they soon realize they’re two souls who will never fit anywhere except … with each other...
  • faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    faire l'amour by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s a woman who has never done anything like this before… Disaster had her world uprooted, her plans for her life going in a direction she could have never seen coming. Shackled with a debt she has no way to pay off, she makes a decision she never could have seen herself making. One contract. Three months. Complete financial freedom...
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  • Southern Bombshell by Jessica Peterson

    Southern Bombshell by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The Wedding Planner’s Rulebook:Keep the bride happy.Keep the wedding party out of trouble.Never let anyone know you’ve been in love with the groom for years. I lived by these rules. Until Nate Kingsley. The Capulets and Montagues have nothing on the Beauregards and Kingsleys...
  • Sampler: If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    Sampler: If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The drama, hilarity and tears of sisterhood are at the heart of the thoroughly captivating new novel by New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins—a funny, frank and bittersweet look at marriage, forgiveness and moving onLetting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected…especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend...
  • Ajax's Nymph by Ciara St James

    Ajax's Nymph by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Ajax:He is almost brought to his knees that day in the bakery. He comes to guard his club brother’s woman and finds the one he wants to be his. However, Jessica is oblivious to his interest. Everything he tries goes unnoticed. Why can’t he get her to see him? He wants more than a night or two. He wants forever...
  • The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    The Widow by Sanne van Ooijen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Joan komt voor de grootste uitdaging van haar leven te staan als haar man plotseling komt te overlijden. Ze wordt weduwe en die rol brengt haar vele nieuwe inzichten...
  • Playing Dirty by Tiffany Snow

    Playing Dirty by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    DOWN AND DIRTY Faced with a choice between bad-boy detective Dean Ryker and sexy power player Parker Anderson, Sage Reece fought the law--and the law won. But while Ryker's sizzling touch may rule her nights, Sage's days belong to Parker's cool, calculating intensity. . . . Both Ryker and Parker are determined to protect Sage from a brutal enemy who'd use her to pay for their mistakes...
  • Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rose in Bloom by Mia Michelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Secrets. There are many different reasons for having secrets. Sometimes we choose to keep those secrets to protect people, while other times, they are kept out of deceit and shame. Regardless of their purpose, secrets have the power to hurt us, like nothing else. When we risk losing someone we love, we will stop at nothing, to prevent the truth from ever being known...
  • Mine To Hold by Natasha Madison

    Mine To Hold by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Are you ready for The Southern Wedding Series?Things are supposed to go smoothly on your wedding day.Aren't they?Shelby I got a love letter the night before I was supposed to marry the love of my life.Except the letter wasn't for me.My future husband had written it to someone else. Weston (Ace)Standing at the altar to watch my best friend get married was an honor...
  • Borrowed by Victoria Ashley

    Borrowed by Victoria Ashley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was never supposed to want to keep her.She was meant to be borrowed.Mine for six days and not a day longer.She doesn’t belong to me.She belongs to someone else.My brother…The closest person I have outside of the screaming fans and paparazzi—a constant in my new life— other than the whiskey I drown myself in to numb the pain left by someone else...
  • Slip of the Tongue Series: The Complete Boxed Set by Jessica Hawkins

    Slip of the Tongue Series: The Complete Boxed Set by Jessica Hawkins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Binge-read three full-length, bestselling, standalone stories that will make your heart race and your Kindle melt. Featuring an angsty love triangle, a tattooed and irresistible single dad, and characters with a taste for the forbidden. Not to mention alpha males...
  • The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed

    The Devil's Playground by Eliza Freed

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former U.S. Attorney, Meredith Walsh, took some time off to raise her children. But the time took away everything she once trusted about herself. She’s lost within the mundane confines of her children's schedules of lacrosse, soccer, Cub Scouts, and math facts...
  • Lost to Us by Kathryn Shay

    Lost to Us by Kathryn Shay

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Why is this woman a look-alike of one of the president’s daughters?Set in a beautiful island country in Italy, Bianca Lucchese and her husband Joe work hard at their veterinarian practice, raise their kids and keep their marriage vibrant. But two interfering mothers bring them to the brink of separation. When Bianca meets Andraya Manwaring, her life falls apart and Joe isn’t there for her...
  • The Lion's Den by Eliza Freed

    The Lion's Den by Eliza Freed

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An injury stops the bleeding of Meredith and Brad Walsh’s fractured marriage. As Meredith recovers and tries to regain her memory, Brad fights to convince Meredith their marriage was perfect, even if it barely existed. But with Meredith’s memory comes clarity, and Meredith is faced with the reality of a husband and a lover...
  • The Mountain Man's Babies Box Set by Frankie Love

    The Mountain Man's Babies Box Set by Frankie Love

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five books … each one jam-packed with the mountain man goodness you crave …. and baby daddies who know what it means to step up to the plate! No cheating, no cliffies, no reason to fake anything — because the pleasure these men bring IS REAL! LOL. You can thank me later! TIMBER: I can be everything she needs. I just have to prove that to her...
  • Finding Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finding Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Colt Harris wasn't on the hunt for love when he looked up from his lunch when he spotted Sarah. As cliched as it was, time stood still - all he could see was her. Hearing her laugh sealed his fate; he knew his life was about to change. Sarah Sauter was used to being alone. She lost her parents when he was eighteen and after a really bad love affair, had given up in ever finding love...
  • A FILTHY Rock Star by Jaxson Kidman

    A FILTHY Rock Star by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The offer of a lifetime. Or maybe a nightmare... I’ve always wanted to be a writer and here’s my chance. My job is to spin every story about Nash into something good. If I do my job I’ll get a book deal. It should be easy... Yeah, Nash is nothing but d*ckhead lust with a pulse. Yeah, I may have had a couple dreams of him before I met him...
  • Bray by Effy Vaughn

    Bray by Effy Vaughn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Sutton Boys - those three words bring a smile to the faces of females of all ages in the small town of Malroy, Alabama. Five brothers who help their momma run their farm during the work week, while seeing how many women they can sweet talk out of their panties on the weekends...
  • A Better Man by Carrie Elks

    A Better Man by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s his addiction. He’s her escape.Logan Hartson is gorgeous, successful, and has a smile that’ll knock a woman off her feet. And from the moment Courtney Roberts meets him on a dirt road, the chemistry sizzles between them.Everything about them is wrong. He’s city, she’s country.He owns expensive restaurants. She runs a small farm...
  • Ruined by L.P. Lovell

    Ruined by L.P. Lovell

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ruined is book four in the She Who Dares series, but can be read as a standalone. HugoI like to fuck. A lot. Anywhere, anyway, as long as I’m shooting my load in or on some pretty young thing I’m good. In fact, scrap that, they don’t even have to be pretty. What can I say? I’m an equal opportunities kind of guy...
  • Release Me: TAT: A Rocker Romance by Emjay Soren

    Release Me: TAT: A Rocker Romance by Emjay Soren

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cal has spent his life loving only one thing; TAT. After years of hooking up with Tayla and refusing to acknowledge his love for her, he is faced with losing her. Prepared to fight the panic at loving a woman and committing to only her, fate takes a swing at Cal and uproots everything he thought he knew about life and love...
  • A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Promises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way...
  • No Commitment by Lisa Suzanne

    No Commitment by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No commitment. That was my deal with Tyler from the start, at least until his tour was over and we could be together. But thirty days filming a reality show here, two years overseas with his band there... Is it really any wonder why I didn’t tell him about the baby?He comes looking for me once he’s back in the country, but he runs into the man I married instead...
  • When Forever Ended by Cara Dee

    When Forever Ended by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    At ten years old, Kelly and I were two rambunctious boys who carved our initials into a tree in the forest. We promised to be best friends forever and bumped our fists to seal the deal. I never should've kissed him that summer before college. It was a day that buried me in shame, a day I spent the next twenty-four years regretting, a day I never told anyone about...
  • Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor

    Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Those who think they know me would tell you I’m a caring mother, a loyal friend, and a dutiful wife. They’d say the golden path which led me here is the road every little girl dreams of taking.   However, the guise of my happy existence has come to be just that—an illusion. A mask of contentment intended for the world to believe...
  • The Wanderer by Nia Forrester

    The Wanderer by Nia Forrester

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Returning home after a long sojourn abroad, Blu contemplates whether the time has finally come for her to put down some roots. Bryan, meanwhile, has been firmly rooted in one place and in one life for what now seems like far too long...
  • Advent by Nina Lane

    Advent by Nina Lane

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Liv and Dean face the possibility that their first Christmas together could also be their last.First included in For the First Time: Twenty-One Brand New Stories of First Love and now included in Spiral of Bliss: The Complete Boxed Set...
  • Love, Lies & the D.A. by Rebecca Rohman

    Love, Lies & the D.A. by Rebecca Rohman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jada McLean is about to get married in nine days, when she walks in on her fiancé in a little more than a compromising position. Days later, she’s on a trip that she intends to be relaxing and a prelude to her fresh start, when she runs into the rude, obnoxious, but gorgeous Jonathan Kole. Jonathan Kole is San Francisco’s newest District Attorney...
  • Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Never Over You by Ryleigh Andrews

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Strange how life deals the cards sometimes … Life was perfect for Mia Devereux. “You can always have me, Mia. I’m always yours. Forever, suga.” She had everything she always wanted. But maybe life wasn’t so perfect after all. One event threatens her happily ever after...
  • Lovely Allergen by Zhichu, 稚楚

    Lovely Allergen by Zhichu, 稚楚

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Song Yu has three requirements for Yue Zhishi:– You cannot call me gege in public.– We won’t do anything together in public.– You cannot let other people know you live with me.Yue Zhishi has always been obediently following these rules. They were practically strangers at school. At the opening ceremony, he suddenly collapsed due to an allergy-related asthma attack, sending everything into chaos...
  • Envy by Dylan Allen

    Envy by Dylan Allen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If envy is a sin, then let me be damned.Graham was born to be a star.  Once upon a time, that star shone only for me.  Now, I have to share him with the rest of the world. For a while, I thought I could do it. Because, beneath the hypnotic smile, gorgeous body and God-given charm that made him famous, I still caught glimpses of my best friend.Of the boy who called me sunshine and loved me...
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